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Word: sleeting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kids don't know how easy you have it. Back in my day, we walked to school, uphill both ways, in the snow or rain or sleet, mind you - and on top of all that, we even took our own tests. That was in the days before teachers and administrators at 32 New York City public schools allegedly started "helping" their students with statewide tests, when kids actually had to know something about reading, writing and arithmetic to get passed to the next grade. For the last five years, claims special investigator Edward Stancik, some kids have just waltzed into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NYC Schools Get an A Plus in Duplicity | 12/8/1999 | See Source »

...convinced that he already feeds half of the potheads in New York City. Kozmo assumes that most people never want to leave their homes, and they're probably right. With free delivery of everythingoeven Oreos, ice cream, Pringles, chocolate and Cokeorenting a movie just became real simple. In snow, sleet and rain, kozmo's heroic bike couriers guarantee free delivery in under one hour. And if you are too busy to drop of your video in at a special kosmo drop-off bin, they'll come right back and pick it up. Kozmo's Boston service, which started last week...

Author: By F.g. Tilney, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Kozmo.com Hits Boston (Finally!) | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...irresistible" hysterics who love life so ferociously their hugs would smother it at birth. This romantic comedy is just as pushy, and a disaster. All its desperate plot maneuvers (Ben and Sandra making like Tarzan on a train roof) can't give the film wit; all the slo-mo sleet, rain and confetti can't give it style. And why do the three stars look so drawn and pocky? Well, it had to come sometime: this is DreamWorks' first reprehensible fiasco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Forces Of Nature | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

Neither rain nor sleet nor snow would keep All-American James Blake from living up to that adjective...

Author: By Keith S. Greenawalt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blake, Majmudar Alive At All-America Tourney | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...tenantdoorman relationship, some tenants have refused to open the door for themselves even when greatly inconvenienced by their abstinence. When my colleague was indisposed on one winter morning, an impatient tenant knocked on the door with his umbrella, beckoning him to open the door. Evidently, enduring snow and sleet was preferable to eschewing pomp and circumstance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POSTCARD FROM THE BRONX | 7/10/1998 | See Source »

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